hi
On Jun 20, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Adam Connor wrote:
Anyone worked with XForms, or even better Lotus Forms for creating
XForms? Anything to be aware of? Major obstacles in terms of UX?
Funny you should ask.
I just read up on XForms and Lotus Forms (formerly IBM Workplace
Forms) formerly known (with derision from the grant-proposing and
taxpayer community at large) as PureEdge. My reason for reading up on
these was because of past (and some still current) platform lock-in
issues (Windows only) surrounding the use of the software with
Grants.gov. ALL Federal grants go through Grants.gov; not all
proposers use Windows. Users of PureEdge have reported that PureEdge
is a huge time sink and has significant usability issues, so much so
that others have tried to fill the gap with system to system
solutions such as: http://www.cayuse.com/solutions/index.php and
http://ggsuite.sourceforge.net/. Grants.gov is the visible technology
front-end to a hugely complicated people-process-politics problem
that has not yet been solved. However, it is worth noting that
Grants.gov is switching all forms to Adobe PDF forms: http://
grants.gov/assets/GrantsgovGDPR.pdf and for recent status: http://
grants.gov/aboutgrants/program_status_archive.jsp.
You can read more about XForms and PDF etc at:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/XForms_Converter
Good Luck.
have a day.yad
jdpf
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